Feedback on the Administration

[Hiebe 2493]

Evers gonna make lotc great again 

[argonian 14254]

1 hour ago, ski_king3 said:

Care less about Admin PR. The loud voices you hear don't represent most of us, and nobody seriously believes those making long threads that clearly misrepresent a variety of staff actions are anything that ought to be taken seriously.

 

Likewise, while I was Admin I must admit that my batch was pretty weak-willed when it came to leniency toward folks who were clearly just trying to piss off other people, yet not doing anything that bad. Those people should suffer harsher punishments than we dished out, we banned quite a few people and then promptly unbanned them who we frankly should not have (not to say that every unban was wrong, of course), and didn't level bans because they're just joking around. Folks being shitty should be handled more harshly.

 

Y'all are doing pretty good all things considered, probably better than the cohort I was with did as a group, though I hope that Ever being done with exams will result in us seeing her more.

Those loud voices represent us a hell of a lot better than a disgraced former admin such as yourself. You were guilty of everything we're accusing the current admins of.

 

Anyway, back on topic: I've already listed out in the other thread all the huge ****-ups and abuses of power Tahmas committed in the past week or so alone, which I'll paste here for easy reference:

• Voided RP and threatened to ban a guy because "not responding to forum RP is metagaming"(which'd make himself and the entire server also guilty of that)
• Fucked up the management of the warclaim and nearly got it delayed 12 days before brules saved his ass.
• Oversaw the removal of an ET for BS reasons without even informing the ET leader or the member in question, or letting him defend himself for that matter.
• Removed a GM with no proof and without letting him defend himself.

That's already a pretty long shopping list of bullshit, but the short timeframe it all happened in makes it even worse. Tahmas has no business being an admin when he's made himself a record like that already. He's clearly not fit for the job.

 

501 proved in his last stint as admin that he has no regard for the rules, bending and twisting them at any opportunity to target ban people he disliked. He even made rules up out of thin air just so he could stir ****. How he was made admin again is beyond me.

 

The rest of the admins are fine I think.

[Shalashask 1112]

I know the word transparency is forced into these threads a lot but it would be nice in the case of admin selection. Maybe when the current admins are choosing a new one they can make a feedback thread about their chosen candidates so that they can see what the player bases thoughts are. I'm pretty certain admins who weren't GMs immediately before would never have been chosen if this was the case.

[Tornaedo 1249]

Not everyone dislikes what is going on. Many people are still feeling that the staff team is untrustworthy due to previous events and so on. The issue is not the whole player base that dislikes whats going on but there is a somewhat large player base instead who is disliking what is a occuring. A suggestion would be to ask them instead of the other part of the player base who think your doing a fine job. Understandable that everyone would have a say in this thread and that it shouldnt be focused on only people who are against you and so on.

[Chaw 964]

1 minute ago, tornado241 said:

Not everyone dislikes what is going on. Many people are still feeling that the staff team is untrustworthy due to previous events and so on. The issue is not the whole player base that dislikes whats going on but there is a somewhat large player base instead who is disliking what is a occuring. A suggestion would be to ask them instead of the other part of the player base who think your doing a fine job. Understandable that everyone would have a say in this thread and that it shouldnt be focused on only people who are against you and so on.

smh when u snake 2 people within 2 weeks of eachother for power

[lemontide331 1615]

admin need to overthrow tythus! server has been averaging 150 players online daily ever since asulon nothing get done to grow??? server is also DEAD eu time zone :D

 

also 501warhead is an evil person should look to remove him

remove josh from gm team

 

 

[Tornaedo 1249]

24 minutes ago, Chaw said:

smh when u snake 2 people within 2 weeks of eachother for power

 

What are you even talking about? All you say is irrelevancy and something that isnt relevant to the thread at hand for his feedback. If you want to say something about myself personally dont post it on a thread for feedback then.

[Trenchist 864]

GMs always come and go for example there are some GMs who are absolutely corrupt and I hate them but most are already gone and this time even though there were some new GMs nothing major really changes, only downfalls instead of uprisings and reformations and new projects which really upsets me plus the server gets boring so bring back stuff that u had before and make it great again cuz its shite atm

[Jistuma 1996]

As for the poll stuff being talked about, don't do it, it's useless. Even when the questions are like "This is awful, here are 5 answer to suggest how to change it" many players might just vote to keep it like it is because they don't care, they don't get affected, it would be better for them, they don't want change, trolling votes, a "why bother" aprouch, uninformed votes (doesn't know what he's actually voting for and what the alternatives mean), or just bangwagon voting.

 

There's a reason that data collection and data analyses normally needs a person with a lot of experience or a degree, it's extremelly difficult to create a poll for something, make the questions good enough for analyses and then remove the 'bad' voting. For example, if I made a poll asking if I should exchange LWC with an equal working plugin that fixes the bugs we know of it, adds ability for us to change the code, and adds ability for new GM only commands (meaning everything about the new plugin would just be an improvement to the old), how many would you think would vote to keep LWC just because they are used to it or any of the other reasons said above? The answer is far higher than you would imagine.

 

As for admins feedback, you've been way too innactive (except Tahmas and warhead since he's new). 

[z3m0s 1957]

I apologise if this was addressed earlier as I have not read through the thread but with all the talk of staff stress I just wanted to ask how your stress levels were Thomas, I personally and I imagine I speak for a reasonable portion of the server appreciate your work and want to see it continue, it doesn't seem like theirs someone to tell you to relax and put your feet up if your stressed, so I just thought I would ask.

[Thomas 3014]

1 hour ago, James2k said:

Those loud voices represent us a hell of a lot better than a disgraced former admin such as yourself. You were guilty of everything we're accusing the current admins of.

 

Anyway, back on topic: I've already listed out in the other thread all the huge ****-ups and abuses of power Tahmas committed in the past week or so alone, which I'll paste here for easy reference:

• Voided RP and threatened to ban a guy because "not responding to forum RP is metagaming"(which'd make himself and the entire server also guilty of that)
• Fucked up the management of the warclaim and nearly got it delayed 12 days before brules saved his ass.
• Oversaw the removal of an ET for BS reasons without even informing the ET leader or the member in question, or letting him defend himself for that matter.
• Removed a GM with no proof and without letting him defend himself.

That's already a pretty long shopping list of bullshit, but the short timeframe it all happened in makes it even worse. Tahmas has no business being an admin when he's made himself a record like that already. He's clearly not fit for the job.

 

501 proved in his last stint as admin that he has no regard for the rules, bending and twisting them at any opportunity to target ban people he disliked. He even made rules up out of thin air just so he could stir ****. How he was made admin again is beyond me.

 

The rest of the admins are fine I think.

I'll respond to this in pieces, because I want to quite evidently prove just how wrong you actually are.

• First of all, being abrasive gets you nowhere. I did not threaten to ban anyone for 'not responding to forum RP'. I mentioned it in passing during a Skype conversation which, I went on to later correct.
• I am not the War Team Lead. There were other members of the War Team who could have set up the area. Why did I specifically not do it? Well, I was in the hospital having a CT scan as various people can attest to.
• I did not personally oversee the removal of an ET. This was a collective decision of the Administration and 501 was the overseeing Administrator.
• I did not remove a GM  with no proof and I did not not let him defend himself. I cannot provide literal proof without incriminating a players privacy, though I did my best to explain the situation to him to defend himself. I also had a long conversation with him following the fact where these were addressed.

I do not feel that you can accurately understand or address the status of the Administration Team when you refuse to actually listen or take in any comments we've offered in reply to your aforementioned statements. You probably won't even listen to this one.

 

56 minutes ago, Shalashask said:

I know the word transparency is forced into these threads a lot but it would be nice in the case of admin selection. Maybe when the current admins are choosing a new one they can make a feedback thread about their chosen candidates so that they can see what the player bases thoughts are. I'm pretty certain admins who weren't GMs immediately before would never have been chosen if this was the case.

I think transparency is always a good thing. I've alerted the Admin chat to this thread so hopefully they'll read this and we can discuss this in our meeting!

 

6 minutes ago, z3m0s said:

I apologise if this was addressed earlier as I have not read through the thread but with all the talk of staff stress I just wanted to ask how your stress levels were Thomas, I personally and I imagine I speak for a reasonable portion of the server appreciate your work and want to see it continue, it doesn't seem like theirs someone to tell you to relax and put your feet up if your stressed, so I just thought I would ask.

I have a few people who keep my motivated when people pull out the pitchforks. At the end of the day, as long as there are people who want me to stick around, I will be doing so. I'd personally like to think I do good work, and people are entirely free to disagree with that statement. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and as I have continuously stated, I'm not going to treat anyone differently because of it. Yes I get stressed at times, though I believe I keep myself even despite the small stress levels. If I do not, of course, I am open to being called out on it. With that said, however, I will likely be taking a short step back for the next week or two so I can have a small break. Truth be told, I  haven't had a day to just relax and spend time with my friends or bae since I became GM Lead lmao. But yeah, I appreciate you asking and I appreciate your concern. 

[Vamoose 265]

If you could compare the esterlinites of lotc to the esterlinites of massivecraft in one word, what would it be???

[z3m0s 1957]

Spoiler

1 minute ago, Tahmas said:

I'll respond to this in pieces, because I want to quite evidently prove just how wrong you actually are.

• First of all, being abrasive gets you nowhere. I did not threaten to ban anyone for 'not responding to forum RP'. I mentioned it in passing during a Skype conversation which, I went on to later correct.
• I am not the War Team Lead. There were other members of the War Team who could have set up the area. Why did I specifically not do it? Well, I was in the hospital having a CT scan as various people can attest to.
• I did not personally oversee the removal of an ET. This was a collective decision of the Administration and 501 was the overseeing Administrator.
• I did not remove a GM  with no proof and I did not not let him defend himself. I cannot provide literal proof without incriminating a players privacy, though I did my best to explain the situation to him to defend himself. I also had a long conversation with him following the fact where these were addressed.

I do not feel that you can accurately understand or address the status of the Administration Team when you refuse to actually listen or take in any comments we've offered in reply to your aforementioned statements. You probably won't even listen to this one.

 

I think transparency is always a good thing. I've alerted the Admin chat to this thread so hopefully they'll read this and we can discuss this in our meeting!

 

I have a few people who keep my motivated when people pull out the pitchforks. At the end of the day, as long as there are people who want me to stick around, I will be doing so. I'd personally like to think I do good work, and people are entirely free to disagree with that statement. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and as I have continuously stated, I'm not going to treat anyone differently because of it. Yes I get stressed at times, though I believe I keep myself even despite the small stress levels. If I do not, of course, I am open to being called out on it. With that said, however, I will likely be taking a short step back for the next week or two so I can have a small break. Truth be told, I  haven't had a day to just relax and spend time with my friends or bae since I became GM Lead lmao. But yeah, I appreciate you asking and I appreciate your concern. 

 

Bae>LOTC

[KeatonUnbeaten 1103]

Tahmas is a good admin, in my opinion, because he sees that Oren ruling the server (which is what it is becoming) is going to absolutely ruin the server. He can't appease Oren and anti-Oren, who are two halves of the server, and he's trying his best to walk the tightrope of keeping both mildly happy and the server going.

[Kiiwi 1440]

The Admin team is doing great, they are keeping their chill even when they have people screaming in thier ears, also thank **** this wasnt a long ass post, because lets be real here, no one reads those things.